January Meeting Recap

Starting the new year off with MOAR RECAPS. I (Belouve) did not get there at the start, so I will recap what I was told by others. People can fill in details if they want.

SoftEther VPN

We had a demo on SoftEtherVPN(“SoftEther” means “Software Ethernet”). This is a multi-protocol VPN software, that runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD and Solaris.

Also open source, and free. You can go from Open VPN to SoftEtherVPN smoothly. Check out the site for other highlighted features I haven’t listed here.

We’re being hacked by Russia, right? …. Right?

Belouve arrived and set up a talk digging into the details of the recent “Russian” hacking. Pointing to the US-CERT report and the files they sent, only 2 out of the 911 indicators given by US-CERT point to Russia. The reports on APT28 and APT29 cite some vague ‘evidence’.

One of the best things is that an APT29 report (see page 9) references the use of MiniDuke malware as being Russia.